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contrast, bailout policies are centralized only when international spillovers from cross-border bank ownership are strong, and … externalities between the two countries arise from cross-border bank ownership. The two countries face (i) a regulatory decision of … which banks are to be shut down before they can go bankrupt, and (ii) a loss allocation – or bailout – decision of who pays …
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contrast, bailout policies are centralized only when international spillovers from cross-border bank ownership are strong, and … externalities between the two countries arise from cross-border bank ownership. The two countries face (i) a regulatory decision of … which banks are to be shut down before they can go bankrupt, and (ii) a loss allocation – or bailout – decision of who pays …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236197
On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...
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of bail-outs. Raising public funds to conduct a bail-out entails the deadweight loss of distortionary taxation. Bank bail … domestic bank failures may be contemporaneous to sovereign crises, giving rise to risk-sharing motives to mutualize the funding … the public backstop and forbearance in early bank intervention in the fiscally stronger country, facilitating bail-outs in …
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We show that market discipline, defined as the extent to which firm specific risk characteristics are re ected in market prices, eroded during the recent financial crisis in 2008. We design a novel test of changes in market discipline based on the relation between firm specific risk...
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likelihood of a bank bailout or failure during the late 2000s financial crisis. The empirical results indicate that established … bank received bailout funds. Overall, these results are consistent with regulators providing bailout funds to banks that …This paper examines the impact of charter type, holding company structure, and measures of bank fragility on the …
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We study lottery behavior in banking stocks and use MAX/MIN to capture loss protection from bank bailout guarantees. We … find that bank lottery preferences lead to lower short-term returns and that regulatory TARP assistance increases the … likelihood of bank lotteryness and risk taking. Lottery-type bank equities are riskier after TARP and exhibit fatter right to …
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equity ratio, loan quality and bank size are the main determinants of bank bailout involvement. However, the aided banks … sufficient to restore bank health …
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We examine whether connected hedge funds (i.e. those that are prime-brokerage clients of bailout banks) benefited from … bailout programs initiated in seven countries during the 2007–2009 financial crisis. We find that being connected to a bailout … bank is generally beneficial for hedge funds in that it lowers the rate of fund failure. However, this benefit becomes …
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In the aftermath of the financial crisis, governments are rightly reducing their exposure to the banking system. Bail-in arrangements should ensure that shareholders and creditors take the first losses. The next line of defence is a resolution fund, which is filled via levies on banks....
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